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Meet Lora Munro, creative director and founder of The Theatre Workshop Performing Arts Schools

What is The Theatre Workshop?
The Theatre Workshop is the South Coast’s most successful privately owned Performing arts school, training children ages five to 18 in all aspects of performing arts.
It was established seven years ago in Bexhill-on-Sea when I was 21. We now have a total of six schools throughout Sussex from Chichester to Brighton and Eastbourne. Read the rest of this article »

Siobhan Fahey of Shakespears Sister talks to Bella Todd about rivalry, reinvention, and why it’s more fun to play the villain

Having spent the ’80s with Bananarama, the biggest charting girl group of all time, in the ’90s Siobhan Fahey executed one of the most dramatic reinventions in pop. As Shakespears Sister, the once-blonde singer smothered herself in khol, roughed up her synth-pop with an intoxicating gothic growl, and made videos in which she and soprano-voiced then bandmate Marcella Detroit tore at each other like angel and devil. ‘Stay’, which spent eight weeks at Number One in 1992, even earned itself a French and Saunders send-up. Following an un-amicable spilt with Marcella and years spent acting and DJing, Siobhan is now touring as Shakespears Sister for the first time in 13 years, with new album Songs From The Red Room. (And yes, she does have a red bedroom – “blood red!”) Read the rest of this article »

Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon’s thoroughly scurrilous Brighton column

A new Bare Cheek feature in which we talk to local residents about their working lives. This week: Rick Melon, local musician

“I generally crawl out of bed at about two in the afternoon. Unless, of course, it’s a dole cheque day, in which case I’m up at the crack of midday to grab my giro as soon as it comes through the door. I think it’s pretty disgusting that the government gives us so little. How are we artists meant to survive? At this rate there’ll be no Shriekback or Ned’s Atomic Dustbin for the next generation. Read the rest of this article »

Brighton Marathon tests our celebs, Supergrass bow out and Gwyneth Paltrow is on my flight!

Run, Fatboy, run!

At the time of writing this, an array of local celebrities were gearing up to take part in Sunday’s Brighton Marathon, including the Aussie-based chairman of Brighton Football Club, Tony Bloom (who also happens to be one of the world’s most respected poker players); and Danny Mills, the former Norwich, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Man City and England right back, who was planning to complete the race in a wheelchair to highlight his campaign to raise funds for ASBAH (the Association for Spina Bifida And Hydrocephalus). And let’s not forget Brighton’s favourite superstar DJ, Fatboy Slim (pictured during training), who was running for Coaching For Hope. Handily Simon Pegg’s 2007 comedy, Run, Fatboy, Run was on Channel 4 on Saturday to give him some last minute inspiration! Read the rest of this article »